PMID- 29154639 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20181009 LR - 20220331 IS - 1939-0599 (Electronic) IS - 0012-1649 (Print) IS - 0012-1649 (Linking) VI - 54 IP - 2 DP - 2018 Feb TI - Developmental relations between alcohol expectancies and social norms in predicting alcohol onset. PG - 281-292 LID - 10.1037/dev0000430 [doi] AB - Expectations about alcohol's effects and perceptions of peers' behaviors and beliefs related to alcohol use are each shown to strongly influence the timing of drinking onset during adolescence. The present study builds on prior work by examining the conjoint effects of within-person changes in these social-cognitive factors on age of adolescent drinking onset. We related youths' alcohol status (i.e., alcohol-naive, initiation during study, prior initiation) to increases in positive and negative alcohol outcome expectancies (AOEs), as well as increases in perceived peer/close friend alcohol use and acceptance, during adolescence. We also investigated whether changes in AOEs and perceived social norms prospectively predicted alcohol onset in alcohol-naive adolescents. Participants were 1,023 adolescents aged 12.2 years on average at enrollment (SD = 0.98), 52% female, participating in an ongoing longitudinal survey on substance use and health behaviors. Positive AOEs, close friends' norms, and same-age peer norms increased linearly, whereas negative AOEs decreased linearly. Changes were attenuated for participants who remained alcohol-naive and increased for participants who experienced initiation during the study. Furthermore, we found associations between individual changes in AOEs and perceived social norms. Finally, survival models revealed that onset of alcohol use was prospectively predicted by stronger initial positive AOEs, as well as increases in close friends' norms and decreases in negative AOEs over time. These findings emphasize codevelopment of AOEs and perceived social norms, coinciding with, and predictive of, onset of alcohol use, and point toward a unique role for within-individual changes in identifying youth at risk for early onset of alcohol use. (PsycINFO Database Record CI - (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). FAU - Janssen, Tim AU - Janssen T AD - Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University. FAU - Treloar Padovano, Hayley AU - Treloar Padovano H AD - Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University. FAU - Merrill, Jennifer E AU - Merrill JE AD - Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University. FAU - Jackson, Kristina M AU - Jackson KM AD - Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University. LA - eng GR - K01 AA022938/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AA016838/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - K02 AA021761/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - K23 AA024808/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - K01 AA013938/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 AA007459/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20171120 PL - United States TA - Dev Psychol JT - Developmental psychology JID - 0260564 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Child MH - Female MH - Follow-Up Studies MH - Humans MH - Longitudinal Studies MH - Male MH - Peer Group MH - Prospective Studies MH - Psychology, Adolescent MH - *Social Norms MH - Underage Drinking/*psychology PMC - PMC5788723 MID - NIHMS906280 EDAT- 2017/11/21 06:00 MHDA- 2018/10/10 06:00 PMCR- 2019/02/01 CRDT- 2017/11/21 06:00 PHST- 2017/11/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/10/10 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/11/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 2017-51815-001 [pii] AID - 10.1037/dev0000430 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dev Psychol. 2018 Feb;54(2):281-292. doi: 10.1037/dev0000430. Epub 2017 Nov 20.